The Online e-Mutation Implementation under NLRMP for District Akola has won a Special Mention Award in the Government and Citizen Engagement Category at the 13th Manthan South Asia Award 2016-17 organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation, on 25th Feb 2017 at Surajkund Mela Ground, Faridabad, Haryana.
The awarded project aims at making a complete switch over to online Land Records processing with Online e-Mutation under National Land Records Modernization (NLRMP) Mission Mode Project scheme, from Offline Land Records e-Mutation processing using Land Records Management System (LMIS) implemented in 2001-02 under Computerization of Land Records (CLR) scheme.
For making the process of the switch quick and seamless, NIC District Centre, Akola has adopted resource optimization for utility computing. It made use of several innovations like Process isolation, Virtualization, Server consolidation, Software, Hardware portability and leveraging of shared networks.
The notable achievements of the project are that it improves service delivery, increases throughput, increases efficiency and creates cost effective solutions for concrete and effective e-Governance. Akola is also the first District in the State of Maharashtra with online e-Mutation for all Talukas since February, 2015 and the Telhara Taluka, one of the first Talukas in the state of Maharashtra for which online e-Mutation, is also a part of Akola district. More than 1 lakh online e-Mutations have been completed in Akola with purification of 345537 7/12 records of 1009 villages of seven Talukas of Akola district.